The Custom of the Country
$34.93
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2006
Summary
Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of what might be called the interior decor of this America and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through a most intricate and s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143039709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143039709 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Anita Brookner |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 60th |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 192mm x 130mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Edith Wharton’s finest achievement.” –Elizabeth Hardwick
“Edith Wharton’s finest achievement.”–Elizabeth Hardwick
About The Author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of The Portable Edith Wharton.
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